Lament in Jewish thought philosophical, theological, and literary perspectives

Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the biblical Book of Lamentations, provides a unique lens for thinking about the relationships between des...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ferber, Ilit (Editor), Ferber, Ilit, editor (editor), Schwebel, Paula, 1981- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Germany De Gruyter 2014
Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : 2014.
Colección:Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts (Series) ; v. 2.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Frequently Used Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Bibliography
  • Section One: Lament and Consolation
  • Eikhah and the Stance of Lamentation / Halbertal, Moshe
  • Ein Menachem: On Lament and Consolation / Schonfeld, Eli
  • Section Two: Lament and Gender
  • Bodies Performing in Ruins: The Lamenting Mother in Ancient Hebrew Texts / Hasan-Rokem, Galit
  • Women's Oral Laments: Corpus and Text - The Body in the Text / Madar, Vered
  • Section Three: The Linguistic Form of Lament
  • Bemerkungen zur Klage / Hamacher, Werner
  • "Incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech": Scholem, Benjamin, and Cohen on Lament / Ferber, Ilit
  • Section Four: Silence and Lament
  • The Unfallen Silence: Kinah and the Other Origin of Language / Bielik-Robson, Agata
  • The Silent Syllable: On Franz Rosenzweig's Translation of Yehuda Halevi's Liturgical Poems / Shahar, Galili
  • Silence, Solitude, and Suicide: Gershom Scholem's Paradoxical Theory of Lamentation / Witte, Bernd
  • Section Five: The Poetry of Lament
  • The Role of Lamentation for Scholem's Theory of Poetry and Language / Weigel, Sigrid
  • The Ghost of the Poet: Lament in Walter Benjamin's Early Poetry, Theory, and Translation / Sauter, Caroline
  • Words and Corpses: Celan's "Tenebrae" between Gadamer and Scholem / Lipszyc, Adam
  • "Movement of Language" and Transience: Lament, Mourning, and the Tradition of Elegy in Early Scholem / Weidner, Daniel
  • Section Six: Mourning, Ruin and Lament
  • Paradoxes of Lament: Benjamin and Hamlet / Comay, Rebecca
  • The Tradition in Ruins: Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem on Language and Lament / Schwebel, Paula
  • Section Seven: Translations of Gershom Scholem's Texts on Lament
  • Translators' Introduction / Barouch, Lina / Schwebel, Paula
  • On Lament and Lamentation / Scholem, Gershom
  • Job's Lament / Scholem, Gershom
  • Translation of Job Chapter 3: Job's Lament / Scholem, Gershom
  • Ezekiel Chapter 19: A Lamentation for Israel's Last Princes / Scholem, Gershom
  • Translation of Ezekiel Chapter 19: A Lamentation for Israel's Last Princes / Scholem, Gershom
  • A Medieval Lamentation / Scholem, Gershom
  • Translation of Sha'ali Serufa: A Medieval Lamentation / Scholem, Gershom
  • Scholem's postscript in the manuscript version / Scholem, Gershom
  • Notes on Contributors